MONTREAL -- Three Quebec prisoners who made a daring escape from jail via helicopter two weeks back have been caught.

Quebec Provincial Police, along with a SWAT team, nabbed the three in an Old Montreal condo at about 1:30 Sunday morning.

“Our investigators and a SWAT team tactical group were able to proceed with the arrest of the three individuals at a Montreal residence,” said Quebec Provincial Police spokesman Ronald McInnis.

The Twitter account for the police indicated that the three would face charges on Monday in a Quebec City courthouse.

Yves Denis, 35, Denis Lefebvre, 53, and Serge Pommerleau, 49, were hiding out in a luxury condominium in one of Montreal’s more upscale neighbourhoods. Investigators refused to tell QMI Agency whether or not there were people with them in the apartment.

On early Sunday morning, police were still on the scene and searching the apartment for evidence.

“The investigation continues, and there could be some other arrests. For example, these people had accomplices,” McInnis said in an interview. He also said that police will not be commenting on the circumstances surrounding the arrest, or what led them to the Old Montreal condo.

The three prisoners were arrested in an anti-gang operation in 2010, when police took down a drug ring in the Abitibi region in Quebec. Denis, Lefebvre and Pomerleau are currently on trial for murder and drug dealing. They escaped from the Orsainville prison near Quebec City on June 7.

The daring helicopter escape, which made international news headlines, led to a two-week chase that captivated many in the province.

Their escape triggered a massive manhunt and Interpol issued a Red Notice, the international crime-fighting agency's highest alert.

The three inmates were known to be a flight risk at least as far back as March but their maximum-security conditions were relaxed for reasons as yet unknown.

The series of blunders that led to the escape have prompted an internal investigation at Quebec's Public Security ministry, as well as calls for Minister Lise Theriault to resign.

Theriault, who spoke with QMI Agency early Sunday morning, said she was “very happy” with the news of the capture.

“I’d like to thank all of the police officers who worked on this operation, an operation that will be judged to be a complete success,” Theriault said. “I’m also very happy that the public learned of the arrests almost immediately. It’s important to make sure the public feels secure.”

It's the second chopper-aided jailbreak in Quebec in the past 15 months.

In March 2013, two men escaped from a maximum-security jail north of Montreal with a hijacked helicopter. They were quickly recaptured.